Sentences with phrase «oligarchs bought»

Russian Oligarchs bought PlasticLogic and used it to steal millions of dollars from Russian Taxpayer, there is a huge scandal in Russia regarding Rusnano, and shady investments....

Whether or not the Russian oligarch bought a handful of Giacomettis off the Krugier stand didn't seem to matter.

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Tillerson's predecessor, Lee Raymond, tried to buy Russia's most profitable oil company Yukos from the oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who had gained control of it during the highly corrupt privatizations under Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s.

Russia's central bank has used its foreign exchange to buy rubles, usually via forward contracts negotiated with the banks that were formed by the leading oligarchs.

maybe wenger should have bought so and so over so and so, maybe he could of used this formation rather than that formation but overall I don't think we couldn't of done much better unless we gave in the «sugar daddy» way of things with the shady usmanov a Russian oligarch notorious for involvement in dubious politics and business.

We may well be, but if ffp does get relaxed (because poor oligarchs can't buy teams and «invest» to turn them into world class outfits or because sky pays the premier league so much that the «others» are disadvantaged) then it will be the «whole package», transfer fees and wages that spiral up.

There has never been what you would call a warm relationship between Arsenal and our London rivals, but when they started throwing the Russian Oligarch's ill gotten gains around to buy the Premier League the rivalry ratcheted up a notch and then the clear enmity and regular baiting between Jose Mourinho and Arsene Wenger escalated things further.

with a... Stable business model that means we can spend with the most affluent oligarch run clubs for every season ahead without fear of FFP... whilst they will have to figure out how to build stadia, buy players and balance the books... Only unbeaten team in the premier leagues history A squad that has improved in the past two seasons with the addition of two world class players Consistency like no one else finishing FIRST (3 times), SECOND (5 times), THIRD (3 times) and FOURTH (6 times)... never worse in 17 seasons......

The fuzzy Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich bought Chelsea in 2003, and his club went on to win three Premier League titles in the 2000s.

Now this, I think, is where many of the club's detractors, and of course Wenger's too, simply overlook a simple and obvious fact — the majority of the top clubs, and some of those in the second tier, from whom we want to buy relevant top players, are owned by incredibly rich men, known as oligarchs for a good reason, or bottomless money pits, known as state - owned clubs, and we all know who they are, simply do not need the money, however much is offered.

It'd be easy to say that I want a Russian oligarch or a Sheikh from the Middle East or whoever else with x amount of billion in the bank to buy my club but in truth, it'd be incredibly boring and I'd always be casting envious eyes over at clubs who are doing it «properly» so to speak.

The move follows a stampede to buy up valuable real estate, especially in central London, by Russian oligarchs, Middle Eastern businessmen and other investors who see the capital as a safe haven for their money.

Retired pensioners who bought their homes for a tiny fraction of what they cost now, will be forced to sell up, only to be replaced by exactly the bankers and oligarchs the policy is supposed to attack.

There is no unlimited ability to spend / buy one's way to office, there is no fundraising component to political service and, therefore, there is no mechanism for a wealthy oligarch to purchase his / her chosen candidates a seat.

A Russian oligarch's little princess paying call centres in China to buy her songs on iTunes?

The NSX can go satisfy those with deep pockets like your regular - type Russian oligarch - ah, screw»em and let them buy the next, hot, ZiL.

But Larry bought it on behalf of a client, an oligarch.

[132] Gagosian appears to have bought both Celebration series works on behalf of Ukrainian steel oligarch Victor Pinchuk.

«We were up against Russia pushing oligarchs and others to buy media.

We [the State Department and the U.S. government] were up against Russia pushing oligarchs and others to buy media.